The school year is ending this coming week and it's the start of the 7 weeks summer holiday. The kids have been doing all sort of activities and trips these past weeks. Our eldest just returned from Engelberg in Central Switzerland for her Geography and Biology trip. We sent her off last Sunday and the students set off on a number of coaches at around 6.30 am from school. The bus trip took 12 hours to reach Engelberg. Obviously the physical geography in Switzerland is much more interesting to study than flattish Holland. They went up to one of the snow-capped mountains, studied the river and so on. Emm......interesting. http://www.engelberg.ch/en/Sommer/index.php
Talking about holiday, the Dutch schools in the South have started their Summer holiday. The start of the school break is staggered by a week between the South and the Middle part of Holland and a further week for the North; this is to reduce traffic congestions as people are driving South. In fact the whole Holland by then will feel like being emptied. People take their holidays seriously - a holiday is after all a much needed break and time to be under the sun. After the break, everyone will ask where have you been? Oh...I went to so and so beach in this great part of Southern France!
Well, holiday doesn't need to be expensive. In fact a lot of people here hire caravan (last photo) which can be pulled behind car and forms their home during the holiday. And off course not to leave their bikes behind. One could checked in into the many caravan camps dotted all around Europe, normally around nature parks which are great places for outdoor activities.
Driving South either to France or Italy during this time can be much longer than normal. Motorways are really clogged up. We found this experience quite awful when we drove to Italy last year.
Talking about holiday, the Dutch schools in the South have started their Summer holiday. The start of the school break is staggered by a week between the South and the Middle part of Holland and a further week for the North; this is to reduce traffic congestions as people are driving South. In fact the whole Holland by then will feel like being emptied. People take their holidays seriously - a holiday is after all a much needed break and time to be under the sun. After the break, everyone will ask where have you been? Oh...I went to so and so beach in this great part of Southern France!
Well, holiday doesn't need to be expensive. In fact a lot of people here hire caravan (last photo) which can be pulled behind car and forms their home during the holiday. And off course not to leave their bikes behind. One could checked in into the many caravan camps dotted all around Europe, normally around nature parks which are great places for outdoor activities.
Driving South either to France or Italy during this time can be much longer than normal. Motorways are really clogged up. We found this experience quite awful when we drove to Italy last year.
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